Faced with unprecedented media interest, Pure nightclub has canceled Saturday’s red carpet event for the so-called White House party crashers.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons has asked staff members to explore whether the state can drop out of the Medicaid program, which provides free health care to more than 233,000 Nevadans.
DURANGO, Colo. — A woman whose body was found in a car that went 550 feet off a cliff in southwest Colorado was from Las Vegas.
Puppeteers hide behind their work, so there is no reason why you should know it’s Michael Curry who brought forth crab monsters from the sand in “Ka” or bunnies to terrorize Criss Angel in “Believe.”
The Showgirl is almost gone, and it adds extra resonance to nearly everything Bette Midler says onstage.
From 3 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, the Gold Coast will select 500 Club Coast members to receive $500 in free play. To find out if you are a winner, simply stick your card into the reader. If you get the message “500 Get 500 winner,” follow the instructions to collect your free play. You must claim your prize on Sunday, but you have five days to play off the $500.
When I was a little kid, I heard a comedian joke about Johnny Mathis’ level of attractiveness. Mathis was known for singing “Misty”: “Look at me, I’m as helpless as a kitten up a tree.” The comedian sang his joke like this: “Look at me, I’m as pretty as a person can be.”
It’s lutefisk time again: Vegas Viking Lodge of the Sons of Norway will serve their 12th annual lutefisk dinner with seatings at 3 and 6 p.m. Jan. 30 at the Boulder City Elks Lodge, 1217 Nevada Highway. All tickets must be obtained in advance — by Jan. 22 — by sending a check, payable to the Sons of Norway, and a self-addressed, stamped envelope (and remember to specify which seating) to Gwen Knighton, 2156 Marstons Mills Court, Henderson, NV 89044. Dinners are $18 for adults, $5 for children 10 and younger and include lutefisk with melted butter or white sauce, surk?l with roast pork, vegetables, lefse, coffee and baked goods including Norwegian cookies. For details, call 869-5775. …
The 45th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards comes to the MGM Grand Garden arena on April 18.
Since opening New Year’s Eve 2005, Pure has been a magnet for celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan, Shaquille O’Neal, Usher, Kevin Federline, Chris Tucker and others.
Buttermilk pours through the phone. Rich, soft, a sotto voce purr. Garrison Keillor’s voice is on the line.
Beginning in the mid-’80s, they were as synonymous with New York City grit as subway graffiti, cinder-block-sized sewer rats and Times Square smut shops. Twenty-five years later, the Big Apple may have cleaned itself up a bit, may have yanked a few worms from its core, but the city’s hardcore pioneers Agnostic Front remain as raw and confrontational as ever.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Co-owner Michael Morse still is struggling to make his celebrated 3-year-old Onyx Theatre a financial success. But the 96-seat playhouse inside a fetish shop (“The Rack”) at 953 E. Sahara Ave. has already achieved at least two milestones. It recently celebrated its 100th performance of “Naked Boys Singing” and has acquired the rights to “AltarBoyz,” a hit Off-Broadway musical that closed in New York on Jan. 10 after more than 2,000 performances. The odd curiosity that was the Onyx is now a major player.
Miscasting doesn’t just happen to cast members. Directors get miscast, too, as “The Lovely Bones” sadly demonstrates.
The city of Las Vegas held a town hall meeting on budget cuts Monday night, and almost no taxpayers showed up.
In the 1980s and ’90s, conservatives who wanted to take a shot at a political opponent called him a “liberal.” At the time, this was an effective tool to demean individuals and proposals they didn’t support.
Despite the unprecedented horse-trading (that’s the nice term) that top Washington Democrats Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi employed to push their massive bureaucratic takeover of American medical care through both houses of Congress on a “rush” schedule, the scheme still seems to be in trouble.
Bankruptcy filings in Nevada were up 58.6 percent in 2009 as businesses and individuals struggled with foreclosures, unemployment and other financial troubles.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid said Thursday the Senate will debate a sweeping climate change bill this spring, and he will use it as a vehicle to seek more federal research dollars and more generous tax credits for geothermal development.
General contractor Frank Martin keeps a Martin-Harris Construction banner hanging on the stalled Wyndham time-share project near Interstate 15 to remind everyone that he’s still in business.
Penn National Gaming will not submit a bid for next week’s planned bankruptcy court auction of the shuttered Fontaine- bleau project, a company spokesman said Thursday.
Shuffle Master Gaming turned a healthy profit in the fourth quarter, reversing a net loss from a year ago.
During the Consumer Electronics Show this month, Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally of Ford Motor Co. became the first automotive industry leader to deliver the opening keynote speech at CES, signaling the new importance of the automobile market to the electronics industry.